Ryan Packer
Ryan Packer has been writing for The Urbanist since 2015, and currently reports full-time as Contributing Editor. Their beats are transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and obscure community meetings. Packer has also reported for other regional outlets including Capitol Hill Seattle, BikePortland, Seattle Met, and PubliCola. They live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
In 2015, over 35,000 people in the US were killed on our nation's roadways. This was the largest percentage increase over the previous year...
When the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announced the end of an eight-year study on traffic collision data, it had a very comprehensive set...
Seattle is now more than a year into a city-declared state of emergency around the issue of homelessness. On November 2, 2015, the office...
Often when an idea comes along that the urban planning world finds intriguing, there's a race for other cities to try out that idea....
On Monday, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the new, post-viaduct Alaskan Way and accompanying promenade...
After going through a request for proposals process to determine which firm will handle the expansion of bikeshare in Seattle scheduled for Summer of 2017,...
We have been covering the selection process all year long for the beefy neighborhood projects that are funded through the Neighborhood Street Fund program,...
At an open house Monday night, the Seattle Department of Transportation unveiled a number of options for street designs on Northeast Seattle arterials that...